NITMB faculty member Sergei Maslov highlights how environments can encourage interdependence in microbial communities

Meet Laura Kubatko, Professor of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology (EEOB) and of Statistics at Ohio State University!

Discover research uncovering the physical principles of biological cells and tissues with AI and math! Moumita Das is a Professor of physics at the Rochester Institute of Technology. At NITMB, she was co-organizer of the 'Expanding the Palette of Mathematics in Biology' workshop. Learn more and watch talk recordings from this workshop. Credits: Human elbow joint anatomy graphic courtesy of Magnific: https://www.magnific.com/free-vector/human-elbow-joint-anatomy-illustration_2

Meet Ning Wei, assistant professor of mathematics at Purdue University!

From insects to birds to mammals, research from NITMB community members Guy Amichay and Daniel Abrams demonstrates that communication signals follow a common tempo

Research co-authored by NITMB Affiliate Member Alexandria Volkening has recently been awarded the Outstanding Paper Prize for 2025 by The Company of Biologists.

Meet Guanao Yan, Assistant Professor in the Department of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering (CMSE) at Michigan State University!

A new study from NITMB faculty member Marco Gallio and NITMB Deputy Director of Broader Impacts, William Kath, finds specialized 'snow flies' produce bursts of heat and antifreeze proteins.

The NSF-Simons National Institute for Theory and Mathematics in Biology (NITMB) is excited to announce that Lisa Fauci (Pendergraft Nola Lee Haynes Professor, Mathematics, Tulane University) and Alan Hastings (Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Environmental Science & Policy, University of California, Davis) have joined the Institute as Scientific Leaders. NITMB Scientific Leaders act as hands-on guides who directly shape the science supported by the Institute. Working alon

Meet Gökçe Dayanıklı, assistant professor of Statistics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign!

Explore exciting work harnessing AI tools for discovery in cellular mechanics, and discover what makes NITMB the best place to build collaborations and chart future research directions, with Alex Mogilner!

Meet Trevor GrandPre, NITMB affiliate member and assistant professor of physics at Washington University in St. Louis!

Hear from recent NITMB workshop organizer, Orkun Soyer, on his work exploring the energetics of microbial systems, and what makes NITMB the best place to build the future of this research area

Discover innovative mathematical biology research from Professor Niall Mangan that is driving developments in artificial intelligence (AI), green biofuels, cancer treatments, and more!

Meet Guowei Wei, MSU Foundation Professor of Mathematics and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Michigan State University!

Meet Sergei Maslov, Professor of Bioengineering and Statistics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign!

Meet new Affiliate Members of the NSF-Simons National Institute for Theory and Mathematics in Biology!

Meet Juliano Morimoto, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Applied Mathematics and Ecology at the University of Aberdeen, and Professor of Ecology and Conservation at the Federal University of Paraná, Brazil!

We're excited to share that NITMB Faculty Member Arvind Murugan, Associate Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago, was named a...

Meet Daniel Cooney, NITMB Affiliate Member and assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign!

The NSF-Simons National Institute for Theory and Mathematics in Biology (NITMB) announced that Richard (Rich) Carthew, the Owen L. Coon...

The NSF-Simons National Institute for Theory and Mathematics is excited to formally welcome the Institute's second cohort of NITMB...

Illinois Senator Richard Durbin, along with representatives from Simons Foundation, Northwestern University, University of Chicago, and...

Meet Siwei Wang, Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior at Stony Brook University

NITMB is proud to announce the Institute has awarded funding to six new external research projects

Meet Mete Yuksel, PhD Student in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Toronto!

Meet Andrew Jones, assistant professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Duke University!

The NSF-Simons National Institute for Theory and Mathematics in Biology is excited to welcome the second annual cohort of the Institute’s...

The NSF-Simons National Institute for Theory and Math in Biology (NITMB) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Joseph Hibdon as the inaugural Rotating Associate Director for Convening Programs.

Meet Andreas Buttenschoen, assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst!

We're excited to welcome the second cohort of NITMB Fellows starting Summer 2025

Meet Alexandra Volkening, assistant professor of mathematics and (by courtesy) biomedical engineering at Purdue University!

Join us for the NSF-Simons NITMB's first public lecture with New York Times bestselling author, Steven Strogatz!

Meet Jeremy Gunawardena, associate professor in the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School

Research from NITMB member explores how differences between forest and desert flies could help explain how climate change impacts insects

Hear how attending the Biological Systems that Learn workshop is impacting workshop participants

Meet Krešimir Josić, John and Rebecca Moores Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Houston

NITMB members Niall Mangan and Jeremy Hoskins have been awarded prestigious 2025 Sloan Research Fellowships

NITMB is proud to announce the Institute has awarded funding to support ten new internal research projects.

Meet Andrea Liu, Hepburn Professor of Physics at the University of Pennsylvania

Meet Orlando Arguello-Miranda, assistant professor in the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at North Carolina State University!

Meet NITMB Member Oni Basu, associate professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Chicago

Meet Xaq Pitkow, associate professor of computational neuroscience at Carnegie Mellon University

Explore the NITMB's upcoming workshop, Biological Systems that Learn

Meet Sarah Cobey, NITMB Member and Professor of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Chicago

Mathematicians and biologists from around the world recently convened for the Random Dynamical Systems, with Applications in Biology

Meet Ben Kuznets-Speck, postdoctoral research fellow at Northwestern University

Meet Sonja Petrović, Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Illinois Institute of Technology

We spoke with Professor Amato to explore the impact of microbes on primates

We spoke with Professor Nocedal to learn more about his work with optimization